Use the table below to change the data series

If youd like to create your own custom chart of spending data you should
use the table above to make your selections.

Select the year range: Select the start year and the end year you want by selecting the years you want
in the two year dropdown boxes.

Select spending items: Just select the spending item you want from the dropdown control. Then click a radio button to select the level of government: federal, state, or local. If you select from the < select > you will add another data series to your chart. Up to 5 data series are allowed at once.
Click the X link to remove a data series from the chart.

Select units: You can select the display in billions of nominal (i.e. inflated) dollars, billions of real (i.e. year 2005) dollars, or as percent of GDP.

Choose chart features: You can select the size of the chart, switch from bar chart to line chart, select color or black and white, stacked or not. You can also blow up the chart to fill the screen with the fullsize tab control above the chart display.

Download Data File

Click button to download CSV file of dataset in chart.

Download Tab-delimited Data

Copy and Paste: Here is the dataset you have just charted. The table also includes
nominal or chained GDP for each year charted. If youd like
the data for analysis, just copy
the tab-delimited text in the textbox below (click cursor in text box, then
press ctrl-A then press ctrl-C) and paste
it into your spreadsheet.

Data Sources for 2005_2015:

PESA 2014 Update

On July 17, 2014, HM Treasury published its Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) for 2014. ukpublicspending.co.uk uses the PESA tables of public spending at the "sub-function" level as its major data source for UK public spending.ukpublicspending.co.uk has now updated its spending tables using data from PESA 2014. The update includes outturn spending data for 2012-13, and plans data for 2014-15 and 2015-16. ukpublicspending.co.uk uses PESA's Table 6.4 for Central Government expenditure, Table 7.4 for Local Authority expenditure, and Table 8.3 for Public Corporation capital expenditure.Since HM Treasury does not provide plans estimates for Local Authority spending, ukpublicspending.co.uk provides "guesstimates" instead. This is done by extending the percentage increase in spending between 2012-13 and 2013-14 for each sub-function for the plans year. It is assumed that local authority spending reductions will not carry through to plans years.Country and Region spending has been updated up to 2012-13. These are obtained from Chapters 9 and 10 in the PESA document.

We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.
E. G. West, Education and the State